THE most touching moment at Ninian Park for me wasn't the final scoreline of Cardiff City 2 Norwich 1, but the ovation given to Scott Young.

Like me, Youngy has seen plenty of bad times at Ninian Park.

Heck, he's played through a lot of it as Cardiff struggled against the likes of Rochdale, Lincoln and Darlington before gates barely touching 3,000.

Suddenly, just as the Bluebirds revolution really takes off, Young has to quit the game through injury.

Talk about unfortunate timing, though at least Young had a great send-off with the teams forming a guard of honour on Saturday as he walked through to receive the plaudits from every corner of the ground.

I'm delighted Cardiff have given him a coaching job because when it comes to commitment, no one has given more to the Bluebirds cause.

Young isn't the greatest player Cardiff have had in their history, but he's one of the greatest triers.

A young Scott came through in the early 1990s, at the same time that Lee Jarman did. Two local teenagers at the back for the Bluebirds.

Jarman was always seen as the big talent, a footballing centre-back with pace who was called into the Wales senior squad at 17 and who had a clutch of Premiership clubs eyeing him.

The two were best of mates, on and off the pitch.

They starred together for their club and I will never forget them starring together for their country by blotting out Holland's finest as Wales under-21s impressively won an international 1-0 against the Dutch a few years back.

Jarman was the real star that night, Young the Mr Steady Eddie next to him.

But while it never happened subsequently for the more-talented Jarman, and he fell into non-league football, Young showed determination to make the grade.

Cardiff made countless signings and also changed countless managers.

Yet he kept on being picked, right up until the point where injury played a major part.

Young was, and is, a top man. A thoroughly likeable individual who just wanted to pull on that blue shirt of his home-town team.

If you could have combined Jarman's talent with Young's desire, you would have had a Premiership quality defender.

As it is, Scotty did well enough. I wish him the best for the rest of his career.